Arsonists set fires on both the altar and near the entrance front of the historic St. Peter Catholic Church in Huttenheim last month.
On January 28, unidentified individuals set two fires in the 18th-century, Baroque-style church, one on the altar cloth and another on a table in the front of the church with a set of brochures, per German media. A woman inside the church and several passersby quickly spotted the flames and extinguished them before authorities arrived, with the fire ultimately causing no major damage but will still cost an estimated 8,000 Euros to repair….
Indeed, arson attacks on Catholic and other Christian churches have skyrocketed across Europe in recent years. OIDAC Europe’s (Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe) 2025 report showed that the number of arson attacks on churches and other Christian buildings doubled in 2024 compared with the previous year, with 94 reported cases.
Germany had the highest number of documented arson attacks at 33. Numerous German churches continued to be attacked in 2025. In September alone, the Diocese of Passau reported that 15 churches were targeted by theft and vandalism.
“We usually have about 15 to 20 burglaries in a whole year, and now we currently only have 15 cases in the month of September,” Josef Sonnleitner, the diocese’s finance director, said at the time.
Within the last year alone, there have been several incidents of vandalism and desecration at notable European churches. A November incident in Lourdes, France, saw the entrance of the Sacré-Cœur parish, among the city’s principal places of worship outside its renowned Marian sanctuary, vandalized with graffiti containing the sacrilegious expressions “À mort Jésus-Christ” (“Death to Jesus Christ”), and the right-hand side carried the words “Sale race de Jésus-Christ” (“Dirty race of Jesus Christ”).
Who do you think would write “Death to Jesus Christ” or “Dirty Race of Christians”? The very people whom the late Italian journalist, the brilliant Oriana Fallaci, who knew them well from her days interviewing Khomeini, Qaddafi, and Arafat, described as “the sons of Allah.”
That same month, in Rome, human feces were found at various parts of San Nicola di Bari Church (St. Nicholas of Bari) in Ostia, including the altar. Within the same week, urine and human excrement were also found in multiple corners of a Catholic chapel, including the altar, at the Termini Railway Station, Rome’s main train station, which frequently draws Catholic pilgrims traveling to the Eternal City.
Last February in the Vatican, a man jumped onto the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica and kicked off the historic candelabra along with the altar cloths. Then in October, another man urinated on the basilica’s high altar during Mass.
Urine and excrement in this church in Ostia and that chapel at Rome’s main railroad station. Urine on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica during Mass. Muslims take evident pleasure in showing their contempt for Christians and Christianity in such a fashion. Remember Fallaci’s fury — see her The Rage and the Pride — about the Muslim migrants urinating on Ghiberti’s sublime Baptistery gates, known for their beauty as the “Gates of Paradise”? And how many remember the stories of what was found when the Palestinian terrorists, who barricaded themselves in the Church of the Nativity while the IDF lay siege for 39 days in April-May 2002, finally came out? The entire Church “reeked of urine,” with filth and human waste found throughout. Many of the gunman had deliberately defecated inside the Grotto of the Nativity, the very spot where Jesus is believed to have been born.
Instead of hundreds of churches being vandalized and desecrated each year in Europe, as now happens, within a few years, thousands of churches in Europe will each year be damaged, desecrated, vandalized, with furniture inside set ablaze, altar cloths ripped up, baptismal fonts smashed, candelabras kicked over, anti-Christian graffiti scrawled on walls, surfaces everywhere urinated and defecated on, all of it expressing the deep Muslim hate for Christianity and Christians. Who will stop them? Who will say them nay?